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Early in April, the Steve Jobs Archive announced it would release a free book with speeches from Apple’s founder. Now, Make Something Wonderful – Steve Jobs in his own words is available to everyone on Apple Books, the Libby app, and online in your browser. The Steve Jobs Archive says this book is a “curated collection of Steve’s speeches, interviews and correspondence, Make Something Wonderful offers an unparalleled window into how one of the world’s most creative entrepreneurs approached his life and work.”…

LAST UPDATED MARCH 2023Our approach to collecting, storing, and using personalinformation contributors provide usPhoto by Annie Spratt on UnsplashTowards Data Science Inc. is a corporation registered in Canada, where our editorial team is based. We’re a publication that leverages the Medium platform to bring together data professionals who want to share and expand their knowledge of data science, machine learning, and related topics.As TDS has evolved a lot over the years, our workflows and editorial practices have…

Image: Wizards of the CoastIt seems like Wizards of the Coast announced it would be releasing a Lord of the Rings-themed edition of its venerable Magic: The Gathering trading card gameback in the First Age, but in fact, it’s only been two years, and other than a peek at a little of the art, we’ve learned little about it. Now, we—well, we don’t know much, other than you’ll be available to blow an entire dragon hoard on the set.This second installment of Magic’s Universes Beyond series will be a massive release on par with…

New York, NY. - December 7th. Portrait for a profile on Fanatics founder & CEO Michael Rubin at his office in downtown NYC.The Washington Post | Getty ImagesFanatics is moving into livestreamed shopping around collectibles and trading cards, hiring a former Snap and Alphabet executive to launch its new business later this year.Nick Bell, who previously led teams responsible for Google Search experience and was Snap's global head of content and partnerships, will serve as the CEO of Fanatics Live, a new business…

I was barely five years old in 1973 when Nancy Friday’s cult hit My Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies made its way on to the bookshelves and into the handbags of women in the US; just seven when it reached those in middle England. My Secret Garden was testament to the fact that women enjoyed as rich and diverse an erotic inner life as men did. Finally, here was a book in which ordinary women and girls – “you, me and our nextdoor neighbour” – were talking honestly about arousal, masturbation, sexual dreams and…

Apple has been slapped with a second class-action privacy lawsuit over claims that one of its iPhone privacy settings doesn't actually work.The lawsuit alleges that the iPhone Analytics privacy setting, which claims to prevent Apple from collecting usage data, doesn't do that at all. It's said that Apple continues to collect data even after the setting has been disabled.Apple was already the subject of a class-action suit relating to the privacy setting after one was filed in California last year. Now, a new one has…

Snow Globe introduces us to a perfectly pink-clad woman flitting around a festively decorated room. But it soon becomes clear in this short film from Christopher Ryan Laughter—whose work io9 has shared before—that things are much more sinister than they appear. For one thing, the poem that narrator is reciting is definitely not “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”Horror Short Film “Snow Globe” | ALTER“Snow Globe is an exploration of communication breakdown within romance and aims to start a conversation about individual…

Data is the collection of measurements and facts and a tool that helps an individual or a group of individuals reach a sound conclusion by providing them with some information. It helps the analyst understand, analyze, and interpret different socio-economic problems like unemployment, poverty, inflation, etc. Besides understanding the issues, it also helps in determining the reasons behind the problem to find possible solutions for them. Data not only includes theoretical information but some numerical facts too that can…

Perhaps there is something noble in the hobby of gathering and preserving words from the past in physical form—even if you never mean to read them. Books are like people. They have human characteristics. A book has a spine, as we know, and according to antiquarian booksellers, it also has joints (where the covers meet the spine) and a crown (the top of the spine). We are able to grasp a book in more senses than one, to hold it as we might hold another person's hand. The sale of an old, rare book is not simply a…

Improve Article Save Article Like Article Improve Article Save Article Collection of Data is the first step of the statistical investigation and can be gathered through two different sources, namely, primary sources and secondary sources. Besides primary and secondary sources of collecting data, there are two essential methods of collecting data; i.e., Census Method and Sampling Method.What is Census Method?A method in which an investigator collects data related to the problem under investigation by covering every…